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Kathy Moss Biography
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1976 |
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SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY
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1991 |
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New York Studio School, New York, NY
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My father was a passionate naturalist. My upbringing gave me a source of readymade archetypes which I have to some degree internalized and then altered and interpreted in my paintings. I am drawn to botanicals for their emotive and symbolic potential, for their mysteriousness and suggestiveness. They become beards, they stand in for figures, they dramatize the forces of relationships: push, pull, need, love, power, isolation. The paintings are minimal and subtle. The images are inspired somewhat by the traditions of botanical illustration, Flemish painting, dioramas, and the seriality, repetition, rhythms, beats of minimalist art. Patterns are made and broken, hierarchies established among these iconic motifs. Where the subject matter is situated creates certain tension on the plane, adding further reflection of the way these forces conflict or align.
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Material pleasure informs my process: I spill, drip, pour, ‘erase’, and paint into the liquid medium. At first glance my paintings are formal in composition and lighting, but each one has a hidden narrative. My lighting and my compositions draw from my background as a painter in oils and my study of classical painting and sculpture, but my presentation embodies the concerns, cynicism and conflicts of my experience in this world. Hair is part of the subject, as are women, pleasure. I think of my paintings as situational haiku: compact instants, using subject matter drawn from nature. I want the work to be transcendent, mysterious, humorous. Ultimately the paintings must work formally, hold the surface, have their secret narratives and be beautiful.
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2009
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CONTINUUM, Stephen Haller Gallery, New York
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2006
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Solstice Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY
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2005
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Focal Point Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY
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2005
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Ballard Fetherston Gallery, Seattle, WA
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2004
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Narrative Abstraction Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY
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2004
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Constant Aesthetic 2004 Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY
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2003
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Narrative Abstraction Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY
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2003
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Coda Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY
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2003
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Constant Aesthetic 2003 Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY
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2003
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Scott White Contemporary Art, Telluride, CO (solo)
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2003
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Ballard Fetherston Gallery, Seattle, WA (solo)
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2002
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Luminious Nature Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO (solo)
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2002
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Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID (solo)
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2002
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Two Person Exhibition Scott White Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
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2002
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Surface Fragments Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY
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2001
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Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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2000
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Ballard Fetherston Gallery, Seattle, WA (solo)
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2000
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Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1999
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O’Hara Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1995
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Frameworks, New York, NY (solo)
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1992
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Cleveland Editions, Brooklyn, NY (solo)
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| Literature |
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2006
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A Summer Sampler of Refined Abstraction, Maureen Mullarkey, THE NEW YORK SUN, July 13,
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2003
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A Clean Palette, Alice Leccese Powers, HOME & DESIGN, Spring 2004
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2003
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Painter Kathy Moss: Berries..., Elizabeth Covington, THE TELLURIDE WATCH, July 11-14, 2003
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2003
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Painter Kathy Moss' Obsession with Form & Light, Susan Viebrock, TELLURIDE DAILY PLANET, July 11, 2003
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2002
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Ambitious Moves, Michael Paglia, ARTNEWS, January, 2002
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2002
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Reverberations & Echoes, Robert L. Pincus, THE SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE, April 18, 2002
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2000
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Kathy Moss at Stephen Haller Gallery, Jonathan Goodman, ART IN AMERICA, October 2000
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1999
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Field of Vision, Peter Plagens, HOUSE & GARDEN, November 1999
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1999
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Decoding the Fictions..., Cate McQuaid, THE BOSTON GLOBE, June 24, 1999
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1999
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Kathy Moss, J. Bowyer Bell, REVIEW, April 1, 1999
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